Games You're Looking Forward To

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 3:40 am

Originally posted by Dottie:
huhu.. can you tell me were to find wifes like that?

@fable: i had the same concerns but i found the world [url="http://www.lonerhino.com/argyle/index2.html"]Argyle[/url] and if they can keep what they promise it looks realy good.

@Dottie, they obviously know how to do up a nice board, and create a fantasyworld background. But it still remains that NWN permits *no* pausing to review inventory, check stats, choose spells, etc. This sounds so much like Ultima VIII, that I have to wonder if they aren't taking NWN down the golden path towards action-games-in-an-RPG-cloak.

I still shudder at the memory of a beautiful-looking Ultima game in which monsters assaulted my character while he frantically looked through his satchel for the right spell scroll to cast.

I just don't believe it's possible to control a party of three and reasonably handle weapon choices and spellcasting, too. Maybe NWN will prove me wrong, but...

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 3:59 am

@Brinky, Red Faction is incredibly short, so unless you are buying it for multiplayer purposes it might be worth waiting for it to drop in price

Although the Geo-Mod is

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 6:53 am

Originally posted by Silur:
I assume of course that you aren't in fact discussing copies of programs not under freeware/shareware licensing which is against forum rules...

Speaking of freeware, the free implementation of Civ is getting to be pretty good, runs under W2K (AFAIK) and can be found [url="http://www.freeciv.org"]here[/url]. It's under GNU public license, so you can pretty much do what you want with it (source code is available).

Thanks, and er..no...*hadn't even thought of that*

Oops

Robhin: Thank you anyway

Nippy · Post by **Nippy** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 8:32 am

QUOTE]Originally posted by Dottie:
huhu.. can you tell me were to find wifes like that?

@fable: i had the same concerns but i found the world [url="http://www.lonerhino.com/argyle/index2.html"]Argyle[/url] and if they can keep what they promise it looks realy good.

About games:
NWN obviously and JA3. yes i know it isnt offical or so but you can always live on the hope

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Are you aware of The Blades of the Banshee? We will adventure there (TBOTB are a Gamebanshee NwN guild

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NeKr0mAnCeR · Post by **NeKr0mAnCeR** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 9:13 am

1 NwN
2 Warcraft 3
3 NwN
4 AoW 2
5 NwN
6 Unreal 2
7 NwN
8 Homeworld 2
9 NwN

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 9:14 am

Looking forward to NwN are we Nekro

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 9:17 am

Originally posted by Xandax:
Looking forward to NwN are we Nekro

Seems like almost everyone is

Though I still don't quite understand the fundamentals of the game, it just looks neat

Recoba · Post by **Recoba** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 10:00 am

Neverwinter Nights (no suprise there!)

Civ 3

A New Jedi Knight Game (not sure about when it will be released) - I think it was called 'Obi Wan' but news has seemed to disappear about it.

Freespace 3 (don't think this will happen, the story was rather unfinished in 2 and I want to know how it ends)

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 10:07 am

27 replies and still (almost) no spam! What is the world coming to?

Edit> And about NWN - can someone post some links to some previews?

[ 10-22-2001: Message edited by: Vicsun ]

NeKr0mAnCeR · Post by **NeKr0mAnCeR** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 10:43 am

Originally posted by Xandax:
Looking forward to NwN are we Nekro

till then ill have to play summoner just because it looks like NwN

NeKr0mAnCeR · Post by **NeKr0mAnCeR** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 11:38 am

OMFG THIS IS SOOOOOOOO FUNNY!!!

for those who have summoner check the credits

its too danm funny

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 3:57 pm

Originally posted by Xandax:
Cool - so you've solved a great mathematical problem - when do we see it published

Very amusing

Of course I meant the problem with the error message.

My publications is not that revolutionary

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 4:08 pm

@Nekromancer, what are you talking about?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 10:13 pm

Originally posted by Vivien:

Seems like almost everyone is Though I still don't quite understand the fundamentals of the game, it just looks neat

The, hopefully, most importent feature of NwN is the possibilty of makin modules yourself and having people play them, while DM/GM it.
This means that it gets closer to PnP roleplaying where you have a human control what should happen when and why.

The human element, so to speak, is introduced in a CPRG

I think that is what most people are excited (most) about in regards of this game.

NeKr0mAnCeR · Post by **NeKr0mAnCeR** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 12:48 am

Originally posted by fable:
@Nekromancer, what are you talking about?

if you have summoner, click on credits, then esc. u'll see the characters playing D&D with something that looks like a pitfiend

its SFF

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 1:55 am

Ah, I see. Thanks.

Incidentally, it looks like Wizardry 8 is being published by Sir-Tech itself. Sir-Tech has never adjusted to its loss of a major cut in the market when it dropped publishing/distribution for development, only, and they've been trying for a year to get Wizardry 8 published by somebody else at ridiculous contractual arrangements.

So now, in a fit of pique, they're publishing it, and dissing all the games magazines that reviewed their product for almost two decades. Nobody's getting free copy for review. As this is their last game, I suppose it's intended as a statement of sort.

Still looking forward to it, though.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 1:39 pm

Originally posted by fable:
As this is their last game, I suppose it's intended as a statement of sort.

Huh? is Sir-Tech shutingdown?

thats sad new indeed... What about the JA series? are they going to abandon that?

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 23, 2001 2:22 pm

Originally posted by Dottie:

Huh? is Sir-Tech shutingdown? thats sad new indeed... What about the JA series? are they going to abandon that?

According to the folks at Sir-Tech, they're keeping ownership of the brand and titles, but will be getting out of business. Frankly, it's not been unexpected. They made some bad business decisions involving the US release of some terrible UK games a few years ago, and fell afoul of some slimy distributors. This forced 'em out of publishing, due to losses.

After that, they never could drop their expectations as developers to reasonable levels. They were unwilling to surrender the clout that publishers hold by virtue of direct lines to distribution, and they wanted too much of a cut from the take. The team became very bitter, and basically gave the finger to nearly everybody who had wished 'em well for more than a decade.

I hope that getting out of business means they'll pick up some sense of the realworld, and reenter game development with some reasonable understanding of the market. Though, frankly, I'm more pissed at their willingness to diss people like myself, who were their enthusiastic supporters since reviewing Wizardry III many, many years ago.

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Wed Oct 24, 2001 3:00 am

CIV III

I too have apprehension towards multi-player online games, and am not really interested in them (except story lines). Like fable, I am not a powergamer, and prefer taking my time to work things out. I don't play many games anyway, so I'll wait for Civ III, while playing PS:T (I bought it 10 days ago).

THE JAKER · Post by **THE JAKER** » Thu Oct 25, 2001 1:27 pm

I just got the PC Gamer issue with "10 best games of 2002" - i was really glad to them PIMPING so hard for NWN, I also thought that No One Lives Forever 2 looked and sounded really, really good. The screenshot that killed me, though, was the one for dungeon siege - looks incredible.

I was really jazzed about what they said about the NWN editor: (misquoting from memory) "it makes it ridiculously easy to create dungeons in minutes" sounds good to me!